Re: Cases, again

An interesting discussion.  What determines that Speaker A learns/retains
old expressions, while Speakers B, C,...N do not?

Furthermore, they tend to get recycled--- neat, neat-ee-o ~neat-o were
common when I was around 12-14 (middish-late 1940s), then utterly unheard
for years AFAICR until fairly recently.

When will "groovy" return?
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Christophe and Philippe C (with many snips) wrote:
En réponse à Philippe Caquant :
>I'm afraid I'm under 50 (so I hope to survive at least
>one more summer + winter). I can't remember where I
>heard this expression, I just know it.
I knew it because I read it ....And as I said, no one in my surroundings
(including people way above their 50s) knew the expression at all, not even
in passive knowledge. ....As I said, probably 95% of the population doesn't
know what a PPH is, and
the remaining 5% probably find the expression out-dated (like I do).

> I think "P4"
>is also still understood, although military service
>has ended by now.
Never heard that one

>  It was a code used by the Army to
>indicate that somebody couldn't serve as a soldier
>because he hadn't all his wits (that's what the Army
>recrutor thought, of course).
Well, never heard that at least...
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OK, Fellow Americans under ....40?  (And no fair googling...........)

What's  "4F"? or "1A" and/or "2S"?

Define:
Bee's knees.
Cat's pajamas ~Cat's meow.
Catbird seat

(Someone on Conlang, or on their website, has used "okey-doke", which my
mother used to say back in the 40s-- I never did, it sounded so archaic!!
Another of her favorites was "swell-elegant", which is transparent at
least.)

For the bibulous, ever had a---
Bronx?  Sidecar?  Pink Lady?
When was the last time you ordered, or were offered, a highball? (Or merely
used that word in any of its senses...?)

How many have seen a real live functioning
Hudson, Packard, Nash, Studebaker, De Soto--- how many of you are asking
"Who??"*

What is/was Fluid Drive?  Hydramatic?

Do we still know what was a "Three-ring circus"?

(I have barely begun to plumb the depths of my memory)
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* Not to give it away, but: How many of us have actually ridden in one?

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